CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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470 km from Pui to Pui, about 4 h of riding. It goes by way of Comărnicel II, Voineasa - Crac-Găuri, Monastery of Horezu and back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 63 km this is Romania Transalpina, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
South of the Mures and west of the Retezat massif, the Hateg country is an oddly self-contained basin, ringed by mountains and full of old stories. Bosorod lies on its eastern side, near the town of Pui, in a landscape of meadows, small farms and wooded slopes that rise gradually toward the Orastie Mountains. This is where the Dacians built their strongholds, and the fortress at Banita, which shares the label with Jigoru Mare, is one of six that make up the UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains.
Read the complete Boșorod write-up.
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Boșorod is where the day begins. Next is Comărnicel II.
The Retezat range rises to the south, its granite peaks carrying snow into early summer, and the whole area belongs to Hunedoara county, a land of old mining, Dacian history and shepherds who still move flocks through the hills.
Read the complete Comărnicel II write-up.
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Comărnicel II comes up about 98 km into the recorded legs. Next is Voineasa - Crac-Găuri.
North of the Jiu Valley, the land rises steeply into the Șureanu and Parâng mountains, a wild region of high ridges, deep valleys, spruce forests and alpine meadows. Crac-Găuri lies up in this high country, linked by name to the old routes that crossed the mountains in Roman times, when Dacia was a province and soldiers watched the passes between the Transylvanian basin and the south. Little is visible today, and the remoteness is half the attraction: this is mountain land, where shepherds bring their flocks to high pastures in summer and the forest stretches for miles.
Read the complete Voineasa - Crac-Găuri write-up.
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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Voineasa - Crac-Găuri. Next is Monastery of Horezu.
Constantin Brâncoveanu, prince of Wallachia at the end of the seventeenth century, was a wealthy, cultured ruler who built churches, palaces and monasteries across his principality, and Horezu was his masterpiece. Founded in 1690, the monastery sits in a quiet valley in the foothills of the Căpățânii mountains, surrounded by walls, with a church at the centre of a courtyard lined with arcaded cells. It is the finest example of the Brâncovenesc style, a blend of Byzantine, Renaissance and Baroque, with carved stone, painted interiors and elegant porches, and it was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1993. In 1714, Brâncoveanu and his four sons were executed by the Ottomans in Istanbul; the Romanian Orthodox Church later canonised them as martyrs.
Read the complete Monastery of Horezu write-up.
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Monastery of Horezu, about halfway. Next is back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri.
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Read the complete Voineasa - Crac-Găuri write-up.
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back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Comărnicel II.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Comărnicel II write-up.
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back through Comărnicel II comes up about 353 km into the recorded legs. Next is Boșorod.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boșorod write-up.
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Boșorod closes the day.
Boșorod → Comărnicel II is 98 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Comărnicel II → Voineasa - Crac-Găuri is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Voineasa - Crac-Găuri → Monastery of Horezu is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monastery of Horezu → back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Voineasa - Crac-Găuri → back through Comărnicel II is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Comărnicel II → Boșorod is 117 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.